Example of major sites that are down

piratebay.org was recently taken down, all other torrent sites I tested works

sourceforge.net, China has amazingly taken down the other of open source

wordpress.com, all blogs hosted on wordpress are blocked including results on dashboard from wordpress stats plugin

livejournal.com doesn’t work

99% of all porn sites are down

Note that

most blogs hosted at blogspot.com works. Any coincidence that blogspot is owned by Google which also has the Google Reader which amazingly works. I guess that Google has the right connections.

wikipedia.org, youtube.com and the dangerous site slashdot.org which were blocked for the longest time, are now up and kicking.

Some workarounds

read sites with rss easily, open the rss feed in Google Reader which works perfectly with text and pictures. You wont be able to read the comments though.

use translation sites hich translates the complete webpage such as this Excite site which translates sites between Japanese and English.

For whatever reason China is now blocking the centre of open source, sourceforge.net .

I wonder why and can find no reason.

Recently I have noticed that the Great Firewall of China seems to be blocking Piratebay. Damn, that is my favourite torrent site. Oh well, all other torrent sites seems to work perfectly still though.

But what is happening?

Before was all blogs on blogspot.com and wikipedia.org down but now they seem to work.

The dangerous site Slashdot.org is still down. :/

Hint, if a site is down and it has rss feed. Start a google account and use Google Reader to read the content. Same as a proxy. It is strange that they let Google Reader pass the firewall.